> From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On > Behalf Of mitch@mdmiller.com > > Sure ... but doesn't /var typically live on a partition of it's own, > anyway? Say, is there a HOWTO or other document which describes > partitioning considerations and/or the standard directory structure? > Sorry for all the questions, but I've been brain numbed by a WinTel > world!! Absolutely, var lives by itself because var being filled up can be part of a denial of service attack... As I recall, its possible to wind up with an unbootable system if the root filesystem becomes full. So var and tmp ought to live on their own partitions or logical volumes. > > -- Mitch > > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Sarwer Zafiruddin wrote: > > > Expanding / is useful when you need to upgrade the system and > the newer OS > > needs more space to upgrade. My primary concern is things > under the /var > > filesystem, where things grow constantly like logs (which I like to keep > > atleast 6months of rotated logs), possibly more space for > > /var/spool/mqueue (for mail server that have increase of mail traffic), > > and /var/spool/mail (for those hog user who refuse to clean up > their INBOX > > ;-) ). > > > > Sarwer > > > > > > (b) dynamically expand the amount of space available to the root > > partition. > > > > > > Pardon me for being a neophyte here, but what else goes on the root > > > partition which takes any significant or dynamic amount of > space? Isn't > > > the root just a place to put all the top level directories, > the contents > > > of which are typically all on another partition anyway? > > > > > > -- Mitch > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > >
